Roger Moore RIP
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Roger Moore RIP
Died at home in Switzerland aged 89 following a "short fight with cancer".
Kind of got missed with the understandable focus on the Manchester atrocity.
He was the Bond I grew up with so, though not my favourite, he is the ur-Bond for me. And a complete gent on and off the screen by all accounts.
Plus the single best sequence in the history of the Bond movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kyQauA2udc[/URL]
Kind of got missed with the understandable focus on the Manchester atrocity.
He was the Bond I grew up with so, though not my favourite, he is the ur-Bond for me. And a complete gent on and off the screen by all accounts.
Plus the single best sequence in the history of the Bond movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kyQauA2udc[/URL]
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Moonraker and Octopussy are still my favourites.
A great story here:
This truly wonderful Roger Moore story will soothe your aching soul | The Poke
A great story here:
This truly wonderful Roger Moore story will soothe your aching soul | The Poke
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Re: Roger Moore RIP
Moonraker and Octopussy are still my favourites.
A great story here:
This truly wonderful Roger Moore story will soothe your aching soul | The Poke
A great story here:
This truly wonderful Roger Moore story will soothe your aching soul | The Poke
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Roger Moore was indeed a legend. Seems a genuinely nice guy, very funny too in an understated way. He never took the Bond role too seriously, and unlike a lot of actors who seem to resent the roles that made them famous, he always seemed happy to keep being Bond long after he stopped starring in the movies and said he never minded at all when people in restaurants or hotels called him Mr Bond.
I guess you always prefer the Bond you grew up with, for me Moonraker was the first Bond film I saw, so Roger Moore will always be the real Bond.
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My Bond was Brosnan, who I'll only ever see as Bond.
Roger Moore though, was an absolute joy to watch and I remember being a kid watching old Bond movies and thinking he was the coolest man on earth.
Roger Moore though, was an absolute joy to watch and I remember being a kid watching old Bond movies and thinking he was the coolest man on earth.
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Moonraker and Octopussy are still my favourites.
A great story here:
This truly wonderful Roger Moore story will soothe your aching soul | The Poke
A great story here:
This truly wonderful Roger Moore story will soothe your aching soul | The Poke
But.......Blofeld was not actually a character in any of the RM Bond movies because of the lawsuit arising from Moonraker. The start of FYEO does feature a character who is clearly meant to be Blofeld but is never named as as such in the short sequence. Seems unlikely then that Moore would have referenced him in a conversation with a small boy 12 years after Blofeld's last appearance in a Bond movie - and even that was only briefly at the start of DAF, which was Sean Connery's last (official) appearance as Bond....
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no disrespect to Roger Moore (May Allah swt bless his soul in peace)....my fav all time bond has to be Sean Connery....that schexy accent of his
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OSN kindly obliged with an excellent double bill last night: The Man With the Golden Gun, the first Bond I ever saw and which I had under-rated I think on rewatching, and the peerless The Spy Who Loved Me, complete with dodgy Egyptian geography (driving to Luxor from Cairo, really?).
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OSN kindly obliged with an excellent double bill last night: The Man With the Golden Gun, the first Bond I ever saw and which I had under-rated I think on rewatching, and the peerless The Spy Who Loved Me, complete with dodgy Egyptian geography (driving to Luxor from Cairo, really?).
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OSN kindly obliged with an excellent double bill last night: The Man With the Golden Gun, the first Bond I ever saw and which I had under-rated I think on rewatching, and the peerless The Spy Who Loved Me, complete with dodgy Egyptian geography (driving to Luxor from Cairo, really?).
The one speaking Thai says how good looking he is, why is his face is like this etc, but the other niece understands??
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For me it's Moore and Dalton close behind.
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The Moore-era films are not comparable with those of Craig. They're a different genre, the former being something kids could watch, with a bit of titillation for dads, but the latter are full-on spy/violence without even any soft edges. I'm not saying that one is better than the other, but they're simply not comparable.
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I think the ultimate Bond film is Goldfinger and Connery was very good looking and charming then but I went off him when I found out, many years ago, that he thinks it is okay for a man to hit his wife. He's also a total hypocrite from a political perspective.
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Apart from the one where Craig had to stop a guy stealing water. That one was awful.